Senior Quality Engineer
Location: Bedford, Nova Scotia
Country: Canada
Category: QA/Automation
Workplace Location: Remote
Employment Type: Contract To Hire
Posted Date: April 23, 2026
Job ID: 646831
Job Description
Job Title: Senior Quality Engineer
Location: Remote
Contract length: 6 months
Schedule: Fulltime, M-F
Pay: $60 to $75/hr, DOE
Job Overview:
Our client is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to support a Canada-based development team. This contingent role will backfill critical QA capacity and support the delivery of high-priority features.
Job Responsibilities:
- Work closely with Product Managers and Software Engineers to define and understand the desired outcome. Participate in the discovery process with an eye for risk mitigation and quality
- Develop and maintain testing artifacts and documentation
- Identify and apply the right testing approach with test suites that provide accurate and quick feedback to the development process
- Contribute to continuously improving the quality practices, tooling, and processes that support the team mission
- Contribute to the growth and career development of more junior team members. Be a mentor
- Support the development process from ideation to code deployments and feature releases
Qualifications & Experience:
- You are a detail-oriented team player with strong interpersonal and communication skills who seek continuous learning and improvement
- You are a seasoned technologist with a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field and 5+ years of experience in software testing and test automation
- You are proficient in C# and Transact-SQL (TSQL)
- You are adequate with Zephry
- You have experience working with ALM tools (Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Jira) and Git
- You have experience in end-to-end test frameworks such as Selenium, including using behavior-driven development (BDD) with frameworks such as SpecFlow
- You have experience in API testing using tools like Postman and Newman
- You are familiar with the most common security vulnerabilities in web applications (e.g., OWASP Top Ten) and can design tests to catch them early
Preferred Skills/Experience:
- You have experience with non-functional testing, using load test tools like k6 or JMeter
- You have experience with automated testing, using tools like selenium, playwright, etc.
- You have experience in mobile app testing using tools like BrowserStack, LambdaTest, or similar
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